The ancient Athenian Drachma was @ 4.3 grams of Silver. This makes the pay-out equal to just over 525 troy ounces of Silver, at a current value of $10,000. Given that, in that era, a Drachma was the daily wage for a skilled worker, this is well over 10 years wages for a skilled adult worker, or probably closer to a half million or so in today's dollars.

The ancient Athenian Drachma was @ 4.3 grams of Silver. This makes the pay-out equal to just over 525 troy ounces of Silver, at a current value of $10,000. Given that, in that era, a Drachma was the daily wage for a skilled worker, this is well over 10 years wages for a skilled adult worker, or probably closer to a half million or so in today's dollars.

Not bad.

/do the job, son.

The whole thing happened in Egypt though, and he's Greek. I'm sure a fair bit went into paying travel expenses.